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The East , a database documentary
Democratic cinema!
Every presentation is a premiere!
Estonian Parliament, 19-23 January 2015
“The East” is a database documentary, which we are presenting here in an
installation version.
The film shows the contrasts of Estonia: the industrial landscape of North-East
Estonia, picturesque nature, grim and beautiful indtustrial landscapes and the
stories of the people living there.
Our artistic vision has been to emphasise the visual point of view and to add
critical commentaries. Our main interest lies in the experimental and
innovative format, which allows us to show hidden and unexplored areas of the
topic.
The characters and locations portrayed in the film are real. We see people whose
lives are shaped by their work in the energy and oil shale companies, and whose
families are of mixed nationalities. We see the reality of people’s lives and
understand their everyday routine.
From the point of view of form, the film has two variations: linear and
interactive. The interactive format has four versions: cinematic, installative,
DVD-version and web-version. There have also been experiments with a multiuser
cinematic version, but for this exhibition we are presenting an installation
designed for a single user.
The audience can influence the duration of the film. There are four topics to
explore and to make choices: nature, industrial environment, machines, and
people. The aesthetics of the film are built on the multiscreen principle which
allows choices to be made between the active narrative and the narrative in
waiting.
Project authors Raivo Kelomees, Hille Karm
Hans Gunter Lock programming
Igor Ruus camera
Chris Hales consultation
Kaileen Mägi interviews
Meelis Salujärv music
Supporters: EAS, Estonian Academy of Arts, Tartu Art College, Estonian Cultural
Endowment, IVEK, Allfilm, Froid, Faun Studios, Eesti Kroonikafilm, Tallinn
Creative Hub Makerlab
NB! ID is required for visiting the exhibition.

Human figure sketching. Quick Sketching.

Human figure sketching. Quick Sketching.

The Finno-Ugric expeditions, a tradition established in 1978 by Kaljo Põllu, professor of the Academy of Arts, have been organized for several decades. Every summer, the students embark on a journey to one of the Finno-Ugric peoples and stay there for nearly a month. In the summer of 2013, the art students were conducting anthropological fieldwork in Narva, Narva-Jõesuu, Kudruküla, Ivangorod and Vanaküla. The goal was to study the borders of Narva – physical, mental as well as metaphorical – and see how the locals sense them.
The question of borders is always relevant – while separating one space from another, the border is also the junction and common ground of those spaces. A state border is more than just a signed contract – it is also something you can experience physically. This physical aspect of the border is, in fact, the focal point of the whole exhibition inspired by the humorous stories collected during the fieldwork period. How does the border smell? How does the border taste? Can you bite through the border? Is the border wearing panties?
The following people took part in the fieldwork: Kalle Keskrand, Hendrik-Julius Kits, Mihkel Reha, Eva Sepping, Ave Taavet, Madis Tuuder, and Marika Alver as the supervisor.
The expedition was funded by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia and the Estonian Students Fund in USA.

The exhibition will be open until the end of January 2015.

For more information, please contact:
Marika Alver
+372 55529199
marika.alver@artun.ee

We would like to draw your attention to the artist talk with Fideelia-Signe
Roots on Tuesday, 13th of January at 6 pm at
EAA gallery, Freedom Square 6/8.Artist talk by Ruuda Liisa Malin, music
improvisation on piano by Gerhard Lock.
Solo exhibition The Heroine’s Yourney by Estonian Academy of Arts’ PhD
student Fideelia-Signe Roots presents stories of the masculine connoted
phrase hero. By reproducing mythological characters, the artist is trying
to disillusion the archetypal narratives rooted in the society.
At the current exhibition the artist plays mainly with two concepts: heroic
versus sexualised female body, by looking at Joseph Campbell (1904–1987)
hero’s journey model through a feminist prism. Campbell’s ideas were based
on the well-known myths which he constructed into a single so-called
monomyth, universal hero’s journey scheme which premise is the existence of
a male hero. The Heroine’s Journey represents the artist herself passing
through different variations of the hero’s journey.
Fideelia-Signe Roots’s solo exhibition The Heroine’s Journey is part of
her doctoral dissertation at the Doctoral School of Art and Design at the
Estonian Academy of Arts. Previewing the part of her doctoral dissertation is
on Wendesday, 21st of January at 2 pm at the EAA gallery. Doctoral
supervisors are Prof. Dr. Katrin Kivimaa and Prof. Dr. Tiina Ann
Kirss. Exhibition reviewers are Dr.
Margus Ott (Tallinn University) and Dr. Eve Annuk (Estonian
Literary Museum).
We would like to thank: Katrin Kivimaa, Tiina Ann Kirss, Marko Mäetamm,
Ants Käärst, Kalev Mahtra, Maria Wattel, Gerhard Lock, Kullar Viimne, Hasso
Krull.
The exhibition is sponsored by: Cultural Endowment of Estonia, The Estonian
Artists’ Association and European Social Fund’s Programme DoRa.
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Freedom Square 6/8, in the courtyard of Tallinn Art Hall
Exhibition is opened 11.12.2014–21.01.2015
Tue–Sat 12–6 pm
Free entrance
Kontakt/Contact
EKA galerii / EAA gallery
Vabaduse väljak 6/8, 10146 Tallinn
GSM +3725266272
e-mail eka.galerii@artun.ee